Romantic Southeast Asia Island Hopping Itinerary

We travelled to Siem Reap, Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hoi An and Ho Chi Minh City. At each stop our guide was there to meet us and each one was very knowledgable about the area,culture and history, able to provide very personal perspective on the areas. The hotels we stayed at were boutique style hotels all centrally located with great service and staff. The trip was effortless as our travel agency thought of everything and it all went very smoothly.

Thank you to our travel agency for a very enjoyable and interesting trip. You tailored the perfect trip for us!

We booked a three-week trip to Vietnam with a side trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia, and the Angkor temple complex. We are three 60-something women who had never been to Southeast Asia before. Before we left, our travel company patiently helped us customize our trip, down to the last details, providing great advice along the way. Our trip started in Hanoi, and our guide was there at the airport to pick us up and take us to our hotel, even though it took longer than we expected to get our visas. The hotel they booked for us on the south shore of Hoan Kiem Lake, was lovely and it turned out to be a terrific location. Throughout the trip, which included stops in Ha Long Bay, Hue, Hoi An, Siem Reap and Ho Chi Minh City, we felt well taken care of, with great hotels throughout. And our guides were flexible enough to change our itineraries on the fly. For example, one of my companions fell and injured her leg in a market in Hoi An. We asked if we could rearrange the itinerary to accommodate a trip to a hospital clinic, and they happily obliged. And later they modified the schedule for my friend, so she could skip some of the more strenuous activities.

The trip itself was wonderful. We experienced the markets, the organic gardens, the temples and pagodas, the waterways and the food that makes Vietnam so unique and wonderful. All of our local guides were so helpful and willing to put up with our eccentricities.

The only glitch we had on the trip was when we arrived at the Siem Reap airport for our flight to Ho Chi Minh City. It turned out we did not have tickets on the flight. We called our travel company and immediately got a call back -- we would be met at the airport by a guide with tickets for the next flight out, and in the meantime he would take us to a lovely nearby hotel and buy us lunch. He also offered to get us a room if we wanted to shower or change clothes, but we just stayed in the restaurant overlooking the lovely swimming pool and sipped our mojitos, courtesy of of the company.

Also I should mention the value. Zicasso connected us with three travel agents who submitted proposals. This company was the only one that really understood our budget parameters and what we wanted to do within the budget. We felt the price was quite reasonable and were very happy with our trip.

My wife and I just returned from a 3-week trip to Vietnam and Cambodia organized by the travel company.  We had used a company referred by Zicasso for a trip to Argentina in 2018 and were curious to see if we would be as satisfied after this trip as we had been after that one.  Suffice it to say, we were not disappointed!  This company did a terrific job in organizing our trip, securing comfortable, welcoming and well-located accommodations, setting us up with incredible guides with terrific local knowledge and very good English (we're from the US), arranging all our in-country flights and planning some extremely engaging and memorable outings and adventures.  

While I can't be sure, I think they also dialed up the weather - we only experienced 1 day of light precipitation in 19 days in the country!  They ensured we spent time in the North (Hanoi, Ninh Binh and Lan Ha Bay), Central (Hue and Hoi An), and South (Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta) parts of Vietnam and the temples (Siem Reap) in Cambodia. They also arranged an extensive array of food experiences and venues and provided many other memorable personal encounters with locals throughout Vietnam.  

Without fail, every day revealed many interesting aspects of the culture and history of Vietnam and Cambodia.  Our contact at the company was always responsive to our inquiries and requests - both before we left the US and while we were on our trip - and took time to meet with us personally in Ho Chi Minh City.  We were happy to be able to express our appreciation for his efforts in designing such a personalized adventure.  HIGHLY recommended.  

We went to Hanoi, Ho chi minh city in Vietnam, Siem Reap in Cambodia and Luang Prabang in Laos.

We had a great vacation. It was really easy working with our agent at this Southeast Asia travel company. She was very prompt in getting back to us with all our concerns and questions. We went back and forth with the the hotels we wanted and how we wanted to arrange our site seeing schedule. The agent worked with us and guided and helped us all the way. Very professional ! We would recommend using this company to our friends.

The guides were there to pick us up on time and waiting.  The vans were clean and nice. The guides were knowledgeable and helpful.  

This was our first time using a tour company through Zicasso as before this we were doing group tours only but were finding the pace there too hectic and felt were not getting enough time to look and enjoy things the way we would have liked to. We like to travel a lot and feel would like to do things the way we did for our Indo china tour.

I have food allergies and our agent conveyed the same to our gudes snd they made sure i was able to get food I was comfortable with.

My wife and I just returned from the vacation of a lifetime in Vietnam and can’t say enough good things about the trip that our tour planner and this travel company built for us.  We were introduced to the travel team through a Zicasso referral, but initially were working with 2 other tour companies as well to build out our trip to Vietnam.  We quickly noted how responsive our tour planner was to questions and requests and how quickly he’d provide an updated itinerary if we decide to make a tweak/add, so we determined to work with him.

After many revisions (driven by us) we ended up with an amazing itinerary.  We began our vacation in Saigon, then off to the beaches in Danang, finally finishing up in Hanoi/Ha Long Bay. In Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City we stayed at an amazingly beautiful hotel.  The planner had set us up with a wonderful guide to help make sure our stay was great.  We started out with a Vespa tour of the city to taste local tour, and it was fantastic.  I highly recommend it, the folks from Vespa tour company took great care of us and the food was delicious!  The 2nd best part was the Speedboat trip to the Cu Chi Tunnels.  The boat tour was relaxing, and visiting the tunnels was a good way to learn a little about the war.

Once we arrived in Danag we were greeted by our 2nd guide and we told him we were interested in getting suits made in Hoi An (a recommendation a fellow tourist shared the previous day).  Our guide didn’t hesitate to add an extra stop to the plan, and we headed to Hoi An to get fitted for custom suits.  Sounds fancy right? Compared to the prices in the US it’s a steal, and a really fun treat.  We stayed at a hotel retreat in Danang, located on what used to be China Beach.  The resort was gorgeous, and the beach was phenomenal (plus free daily massages).  This was the most relaxed part of the trip, as we soaked up some sun but also had fun exploring the Ancient City of Hoi An.

The last leg of our tour took us to Hanoi, where we were greeted by our final guide.  We spent one night in a hotel, which is also an absolutely beautiful hotel.  We toured the city a bit, the availed ourselves of all the perks provided by the club in the hotel.  The next morning, we headed off to Ha Long Bay and to our cabin on the junk boat.  This was an overnight tour, and again, it was fantastic.  The food and accommodations on the boat were great, drinks were included, and we had fun with all the planned excursions (e.g., kayaking, caving, and morning Tai Chi).  Finally, we headed back to Hanoi to wait our midnight flight back home.  Our guide took us on one last personal tour around the city to taste more local food and buy some souvenirs, finishing with a street side bar and sampling beer with locals.  Perfect way to wind down the trip.

This was one of the best trips we’ve ever taken, and we are so thankful for this travel team for putting it together.  Neither my wife or I had been to Vietnam, so we looked to our tour planner for a lot of recommendations (as well as finding all the tours and guides).  The end result was amazing!  So, thanks to this travel team and all the rest of the folks involved for sharing Vietnam with us and giving us such wonderful memories!

We spent an excellent 2 weeks in Vietnam, organized by this travel company.  I outlined a general itinerary of where I thought we wanted to go and what we wanted to see/do and they filled in the gaps...offering excellent suggestions for activities in each location and alternative places to visit based on expected weather, ease of travel, etc.  In the end we visited Hanoi, Ha Long Bay, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh City and Phu Quoc.  Based on my input on the type of accommodations we wanted (4star, 5 star, etc), our travel company made suggestions for hotels and then made all of the reservations, including all of the internal flights.  In addition, our travel company arranged for a driver to take us between the airport and hotels and a tour guide/driver for visiting the cities.  I felt like they listened to what I wanted to do...but also were not afraid to suggest alternatives when they were concerned about the weather not being great (we visited at the tail end of the rainy season) or if we were trying to do too much in too short a time.  All throughout our trip our travel agent was in contact with us to make sure that all was ok